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By Dennis Ross July 3 at 8:23 PM Dennis Ross, a counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was a special assistant to President Obama from 2009 to 2011. Rarely have the psychological gaps between Israelis and Palestinians been greater. The kidnapping of three...

Fareed Zakaria Opinion writer Fareed Zakaria writes a foreign affairs column for The Post. He is also the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and editor at large of Time magazine. The Fourth of July, for me, is one of those special American holidays that celebrates not...

I am reading historian Gordon Wood’s splendid “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.” It is an ideal companion for this July 4 weekend because it reminds us of the great continuities in our politics and national condition. Dynamic social and...

Eugene Robinson Opinion writer Eugene Robinson writes a twice-a-week column on politics and culture, contributes to the PostPartisan blog, and hosts a weekly online chat with readers. In a three-decade career at The Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign...

Michael Gerson Opinion writer Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Post. On July 9, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was publicly read to the citizens of New York City — “We hold these truths to be self-evident . . .” —...

By Dennis Ross July 3 at 8:23 PM Dennis Ross, a counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was a special assistant to President Obama from 2009 to 2011. Rarely have the psychological gaps between Israelis and Palestinians been greater. The kidnapping of three...

By Dennis Ross July 3 at 8:23 PM Dennis Ross, a counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was a special assistant to President Obama from 2009 to 2011. Rarely have the psychological gaps between Israelis and Palestinians been greater. The kidnapping of three...

Fareed Zakaria Opinion writer Fareed Zakaria writes a foreign affairs column for The Post. He is also the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and editor at large of Time magazine. The Fourth of July, for me, is one of those special American holidays that celebrates not...

Fareed Zakaria Opinion writer Fareed Zakaria writes a foreign affairs column for The Post. He is also the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and editor at large of Time magazine. The Fourth of July, for me, is one of those special American holidays that celebrates not...

I am reading historian Gordon Wood’s splendid “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.” It is an ideal companion for this July 4 weekend because it reminds us of the great continuities in our politics and national condition. Dynamic social and...